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[verbminx]

I am wasting - wasting, I tell you - fifty cents to dial out from my hotel again just to note that my last two entries were chronologically reversed. I posted them in the right order, but I suppose "postmistress" got there first.

For those wondering, it is my 56K modem outlet that is screwed up; I don't use ethernet (tho I might configure this machine to use the hotel's ethernet, if I can figure out HOW). Right now I am getting online by jamming the cord into the computer and holding it there with my version of brute force, which is more like, um, china-doll force, since there is little "brute" in me. But it doesn't last long and I can't do it often, which is why I have been writing posts offline and posting a few at a time every couple of days. After I find a place, and have unpacked my computer stuff and can burn a cd from this computer, this one will go in for repair, but I can't do without it until then.

I'm going to go read Baudolino or Quicksilver until I fall asleep.

Keep your fingers crossed for me to find a nice house to rent before the end of the week!

Also - insult to injury, (save)Karyn has a BOOK out. (Damn it, I'm a writer and I'm in debt. Donnez-moi un bookdeal, s'il vous plait.)

Finally - forgot to mention today's trip to Petsmart! Did not get "Husher muzzle" we wanted (which is this elastic mouthpiece that makes it physically tiring for a dog to bark), but did get the fabulous Buster Puzzle Cube (kind of like an uberKong), and SPRAYABLE LIVER-FLAVORED GOO (like CheezWhiz!) that's actually put out by Kong!!! It's true! Buying weird crap for my dog is one of the joys in my life.

Comments

[keever.livejournal.com]

Not only does that Karyn have a book out, but she's also apparently sold the movie rights for it as well. I think that she should now pay back every moron who gave her money to get her ass out of her Saks Fifth Avenue-gotten debt.

[easilyirritable.livejournal.com]

Also - insult to injury, (save)Karyn has a BOOK out.

NO! That is fucking awful.

mssrs. mastercard and visa own my soul too...

[12th-of-never.livejournal.com]

It's terrible that Karyn now is being rewarded for her panhandling, but if we pretend she's not there, perhaps she will be forced back into anonymity. We can only hope.

[star-power.livejournal.com]

I will keep my fingers crossed for you :)

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

I can't condemn SaksDebt, cos I have some too (mine is a clearance MiuMiu purse that I thought would be really good for some nebulous future "work" situation). But I sure as hell condemn ASKING OTHER PEOPLE TO PAY IT OFF. meh. :P

it's also... i've noticed that ppl who live in NYC tend to have a skewed view of money, in terms of what is and is not a lot, compared to the rest of the country. A lot of times, clothes in NYC-based magazines where the writers say, "with prices like these, who cares if it lasts more than a season?" are things that would qualify as some of the "nicer" stuff in my wardrobe. This is why I'm a big fan of offprice and secondhand shopping. and yeah, I have a lot of debt, and I'm not proud of it, but the only person I would ever ask for help is my mom... not random strangers.

[keever.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been in serious debt before, too, and some of it for frivolous stuff. But just taking the couple of looks over at her site a long time ago and seeing what she had up for sale on eBay for just that week was pretty obscene; she either had a serious shopping problem or was extremely naive about finances. I can't understand what would compel strangers to help her out, though. I'm compassionate to a fault, but she just gets under my skin.

I grew up in New York, and there is some of that, but there's way more of a sense of frustration amongst the people that I know with being so damned rent poor that they can barely stomach watching Sex and the City.